This code covers chapter 6 of “Introduction to Data Mining” by Pang-Ning Tan, Michael Steinbach and Vipin Kumar.
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. For questions please contact Michael Hahsler.
library(arules)
## Loading required package: Matrix
##
## Attaching package: 'arules'
## The following objects are masked from 'package:base':
##
## abbreviate, write
library(arulesViz)
## Loading required package: grid
Load the data set
data(Groceries)
summary(Groceries)
## transactions as itemMatrix in sparse format with
## 9835 rows (elements/itemsets/transactions) and
## 169 columns (items) and a density of 0.02609146
##
## most frequent items:
## whole milk other vegetables rolls/buns soda
## 2513 1903 1809 1715
## yogurt (Other)
## 1372 34055
##
## element (itemset/transaction) length distribution:
## sizes
## 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
## 2159 1643 1299 1005 855 645 545 438 350 246 182 117 78 77 55
## 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 26 27 28 29 32
## 46 29 14 14 9 11 4 6 1 1 1 1 3 1
##
## Min. 1st Qu. Median Mean 3rd Qu. Max.
## 1.000 2.000 3.000 4.409 6.000 32.000
##
## includes extended item information - examples:
## labels level2 level1
## 1 frankfurter sausage meat and sausage
## 2 sausage sausage meat and sausage
## 3 liver loaf sausage meat and sausage
inspect(head(Groceries))
## items
## [1] {citrus fruit,
## semi-finished bread,
## margarine,
## ready soups}
## [2] {tropical fruit,
## yogurt,
## coffee}
## [3] {whole milk}
## [4] {pip fruit,
## yogurt,
## cream cheese ,
## meat spreads}
## [5] {other vegetables,
## whole milk,
## condensed milk,
## long life bakery product}
## [6] {whole milk,
## butter,
## yogurt,
## rice,
## abrasive cleaner}
Mine Association Rules
rules <- apriori(Groceries, parameter=list(support=0.001, confidence=.8))
## Apriori
##
## Parameter specification:
## confidence minval smax arem aval originalSupport maxtime support minlen
## 0.8 0.1 1 none FALSE TRUE 5 0.001 1
## maxlen target ext
## 10 rules FALSE
##
## Algorithmic control:
## filter tree heap memopt load sort verbose
## 0.1 TRUE TRUE FALSE TRUE 2 TRUE
##
## Absolute minimum support count: 9
##
## set item appearances ...[0 item(s)] done [0.00s].
## set transactions ...[169 item(s), 9835 transaction(s)] done [0.01s].
## sorting and recoding items ... [157 item(s)] done [0.00s].
## creating transaction tree ... done [0.00s].
## checking subsets of size 1 2 3 4 5 6 done [0.02s].
## writing ... [410 rule(s)] done [0.00s].
## creating S4 object ... done [0.00s].
inspectDT(rules)
plot(rules, engine = "html")
## To reduce overplotting, jitter is added! Use jitter = 0 to prevent jitter.
Note: plotly currently does not do well with too many points, so plot selects the top 1000 rules only (with a warning).
plot(rules, method = "graph", engine = "html")
## Warning: Too many rules supplied. Only plotting the best 100 rules using
## lift (change control parameter max if needed)
Note: currently does not do well with too many points, so plot selects the top 100 rules only (with a warning).
Paste this into your R session:
library("arulesViz")
data(Groceries)
ruleExplorer(Groceries, parameter = list(support = 0.001, conf = 0.8))